sharp

IPA: ʃˈɑrp

(music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
(music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
(music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
(music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
(usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
(medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
(medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
(psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
A dishonest person; a cheater.
Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
(in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
(slang, dated) An expert.
A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
A surname.
A Japanese and Taiwanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products, headquartered in Sakai, Japan.
An unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, United States.
Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”) [(colloquial) An alert person.]
Acronym of skinhead against racial prejudice.

Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
(colloquial) Intelligent.
(music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
(music) Higher in pitch than required.
Having an intense, acrid flavour.
Sudden and intense.
(colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
(colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
(colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
Observant; alert; acute.
Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
(mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
(chess) Tactical; risky.
Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
(obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
(phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
(obsolete) Hungry.

Examples of "sharp" in Sentences

The new neighbor was caught now, her expression sharp as a pencil point.
Caine looked up at the younger man, his expression sharp but his tone soft.
To illustrate the difference in basic attitude, the term “sharp business practices” needs no explanation, whereas ’sharp scientific practices’ might imply just the opposite of the prior phrase.
The sales been dropping but they gone keep bouncing back all they got to do is hire some southern artist to keep the label sharp and hungry and New Orleans and Atlanta got some of the most starvin and talented artist out now.
But if the first pedal is now pushed down into the second notch the original F [flat] string is still further shortened and now sounds the pitch F [sharp] (giving us the key of G), and if all the other pedals are likewise successively lowered to the second notch we get in turn all the _sharp keys_ -- D, A, E, B,